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First week of the year and first lessons of the year.

Tell me: how do you say "happy new year" in your target language?

I know there are others learning German here so I'll use the Austrian version:

Prosit Neujahr!

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[–] emb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In Japanese, from what I understand you use different phrases around the new year.

Up until the year switches over - よいお年をお迎えください (yoi otoshi wo omukae kudasai), probably usually shortened to just よいお年を. It means something like 'please welcome/receive a good year'.

On (maybe after?) the first of the year, it would instead be 明けましておめでとうございます (akemashite omedetou gozaimasu). Which, I'm not sure exactly about... maybe something like congrats on a new beginning?

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Interesting, Austrians do the same and say "good sliding [into the new year] right before new year, which they switch to "happy new year" when it's actually new year.

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, if literal, it's something like "[a new year] has dawned, congratulations." The first one's a lot like how we'd say "wishing you a happy new year" in December.

And of course, since the Japanese love shortening things to four mora when speaking casually, there's also あけおめ.